Author Hobley, M. & Buchy, M.

Year of publication 2012

Dr. Mary Hobley presenting at the Chatham House Illegal Logging Update and Stakeholder consultation Number 19, February 2012. The video captures highlights from the study done by Dr. Mary Hobley and Dr. Marlène Buchy, which was commissioned by the EU FLEGT Facility. It brings to light the multidimensionality of poverty and lists the subsequent conditions for poverty reduction in forests. The researchers found that the FLEGT Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) processes and content include elements that make it possible to address poverty. Dr. Hobley takes us through the ways these elements can be turned into social safeguards and concludes that VPAs are posing an exciting opportunity -- they bring together the right ingredients for alleviating poverty and securing forest people's livelihoods. Produced by the European Forest Institute's EU FLEGT Facility - funded by the European Union, the Governments of Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom.